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Yes replace the filters and maybe clean out well first.
LOL, so tue. Water from any other source may be fine one day and toxic the next... To make it worse, you have absolutely no control over it and...
It sort of depends. There is total water movement and there is velocity. We want a lot of water movement, but low velocity. Usually return pumps...
I've always found my fish and corals last longer and look better erring on the side of extra feeding (as long as your filtration can keep up). For...
Right, I agreed on the surface skimming, but surface skimming dozens,t remove anything until you get to the mechanical filtration. At that point, it...
If you really want to make sure you don't add any extra nutrients, dry rock, soaked in bleach and muriatic is the way to go. It is a nasty...
I'm not really sure what oil changes have to do with our tanks.... There are lots of things in our tanks, such as trace metals that we can not test...
In the 11+ years I've been in the hobby, 10% weekly has always been the gold standard for water changes. Recently, with more advanced filtration...
Oh the things people will do to avoid a little kalk paste :)
I have all 3 currently. I think the tunze look the best, but are my least favorite, I would never, ever buy tunze pumps again... They have fairly...
Zeo is basically just a more powerful version of pellets. The same negative effects can happen x 1000. The solution though is to feed more....
Oh, okay, I see now, you added the Par to the picture. Yeah, where the SPS are seems to be a bit weak... I'd like to be in the 300ish range if...
These numbers aren't yet multiplied by 5? If the case you have plent of PAR. Most of those coral probably photo saturate around 300 PAR. I.e....
Only if the manufacture overrates their skimmer by 2-3x ;). Really, there is no standard for rating, so, the rating can be meaningless. Also, it...
Yeah, a few holes in the glass to won't really help. Actually, I've done some PAR testing and glass tops don't actually block much light to begin...
Also, by the way, I believe CREE does have lots of graphs available. I am not sure about other manufactures. Aquarium lighting manufactures are...
Right, but I am saying that they "don't" publish how long they should last, they publish how long they should retain 70% of their lumen output....
No, that should not be correct with proper cooling anyways... LEDs lifespan is usually measured using the L70 rating. That means that the...
I've moved lots of tanks without cycling first, but as I said, last time, it didn't work so well.... Do you have the room to setup the new tank...
Most of the time jut moving works fine. last time I did so though, I did get a cycle and lost some stuff. It's "usually" okay not to, but always...
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